Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878) (in whose company it was painted);

Thence by descent to his son, Karl Daubigny (1846–1886);

With Karl Daubigny's widow until 1893, according to her inscription on the reverse;

From whom acquired by Atherton M. Curtis (1863–1943), New York (according to an inscription on the reverse by Daubigny's widow);¹

With Reid & Lefevre, London, by 1950;

From whom purchased that year by Albert D. Lasker (1880–1952);²

Thence by descent to his widow, Mary Lasker (1900–1994);³

With Marlborough Fine Art, London;

From whom presumably purchased by the late owner.

¹ Curtis was a American art collector and writer, who began collecting at an early age; he settled in Paris by 1900.

² Lasker was an American advertising executive, whose agency Lord & Thomas, shaped twentieth-century advertising in America.

³ Mary Lasker was an American health activist and philanthropist, who founded the Lasker Foundation; she was married to Lasker from 1940 until his death in 1952.

A. Robaut, L'Œuvre de Corot, catalogue raisonné et illustré, Paris 1905, vol. II, p. 242, no. 715, reproduced as a drawing by Robaut p. 243.